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What an inspiring, impactful 2017 Conference. Thank you to all of those who joined us. We will be announcing the 2018 dates and location soon. Click here to be among the first to know!

HIVE is the marquee innovation event in the nation that touches every aspect of housing. Join the best and brightest construction and design professionals, academics, and thought leaders from an array of industries passionate about design, business strategies, and innovation to stimulate new ideas and shape the future of how people live, work and play.

Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect, engineer, inventor, educator and activist founder of Carlo Ratti Associati and professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology where he directs the MIT Senseable City Lab, a research group that explores how new technologies are changing the way we understand, design and ultimately live in cities. He is also a founding partner of the international design office Carlo Ratti Associati, which he established in 2004 in Torino, Italy. Ratti was named one of the "50 most influential designers in America" by Fast Company and highlighted in Wired Magazine's "Smart List: 50 people who will change the world."

Ratti has been featured in Esquire Magazine’s 'Best & Brightest’ list and in Thames & Hudson’s selection of ‘60: Innovators Shaping our Creative Future. Blueprint Magazine included him as one of the ‘25 People Who Will Change Architecture and Design’, Forbes listed him as one of the ‘Names You Need To Know’ in 2011.

EVE PICKER, SMALL CHANGE FOUNDER AND CEO

Eve Picker’s world is wrapped around cities and change.

With a background as an architect, city planner, urban designer, real estate
developer, community development strategist, publisher, and instigator, Eve has
a rich understanding of how cities and urban neighborhoods work – and how
they can be revitalized.

Amongst her many urban (ad)ventures, Eve has developed a dozen buildings in
blighted neighborhoods, launched a Pittsburgh-focused e-zine called Pop City,
and founded and organized a speaker series, cityLIVE!, on city-centric issues.
She has taught urban design and participated in Sustainable Design
Assessment Teams for the American Institute of Architects in cities from Los
Angeles to Springfield, Ohio, helping with urban design and to set a strategic
course for downtowns and housing developments. Eve has strategized about
how to encourage residential development of vacant upper floors in downtown
Pittsburgh. And with cityLAB, she has instigated bottom-up projects like the
“6% Place,” the “Garfield Night Market” and a “Tiny House.”

Now Eve has launched – and leads – Small Change, a real estate equity
crowdfunding portal to help fund transformational real estate projects. Small
Change packages offerings for developers to help them build projects that make
cities better, and provides investment opportunities for everyone who cares
about cities and wants to see positive change.

To learn more about Eve, and to see her TEDx talk and completed projects, visit evepicker.com.

Biography – Jason F. McLennan
Considered one of the world’s most influential individuals in the field of architecture and green building movement today, Jason is a highly sought out designer, consultant and thought leader around the planet. He is the recipient of the prestigious Buckminster Fuller Prize (the planet’s top prize for socially responsible design). He has been called the ‘Steve Jobs’ of the green building industry, a “World Changer” by GreenBiz magazine and has been selected as the Award of Excellence winner for Engineering News Record- one of the only architects to have won the award in its 52-year history.

McLennan is the creator of the Living Building Challenge – the most stringent and progressive green building program in existence, as well as a primary author of the WELL Building Standard, which is sweeping the globe. He is the author of six books on Sustainability and Design – used by thousands of practitioners each year, including the Philosophy of Sustainable Design, which is considered the ‘bible’ for green building’ – and is both an Ashoka Fellow and Senior Fellow of the Design Future’s Council. He has been selected by Yes! Magazine as one of ‘15 people shaping the world’ and works closely with world leaders, Fortune 500 companies, leading NGO’s, major universities, celebrities and influential development companies –all in the pursuit of a world that is socially just, culturally rich and ecologically restorative. He serves as the Chairman of the International Living Future Institute and is the CEO of McLennan Design – his own architectural and planning practice and the Green Warrior Society- an exciting new philanthropic initiative designed to bring good design and environmental performance to those that need it the most. McLennan’s work has been published in dozens of journals, magazines and newspapers around the world.

James Chung

James Chung is President of Reach Advisors, a strategy, research and predictive analytics firm. The firm works with organizations making strategy and capital expenditure bets to outperform their market as the future unfolds differently than their industry has seen up to this point.

Given that focus, the work clusters in industries making major long-term bets, including large-scale real estate development, REITs, economic development, tourism and resorts, museums and cultural institutions, and the healthy living category.

The firm is recognized as one of the only advisors serving the real estate industry that was warning clients in 2005 to exit the market, and giving clients notice back in 2003 of the need to accelerate and exit within five years. In the post-recession era, the firm continues to help clients across industries make better calls on when and how to enter, expand or exit markets. The firm’s work often focuses on identifying the unseen spots where demand-curve growth will still exceed supply-curve growth…when anything obvious will be oversupplied in today’s era of capital superabundance.

James also runs Reach Advisors Ventures, incubating and investing in new ventures derived from the intellectual capital of Reach Advisors. He also serves as chairman of a data science venture launching in 2016 that applies machine learning to extract future trends from large-scale public data sets.

James has spent his career at the forefront of some of the most cutting-edge advancements at the intersection of analytics and strategy. James was one of the pioneers in data warehousing analytics in the early 1990s, internet-enabled consumer engagement programs in the mid 1990s, and he built an internet-enabled targeted media and research firm that was acquired in 2001.

James earned his AB and MBA degrees from Harvard University, and serves on the Harvard Alumni Association board of directors. He resides with his family in northern New York and Boston.

Chip Conley

Hotel guru. Armchair psychologist. Traveling philosopher. Author. Speaker. Teacher. Student. Chip Conley has lived out more than one calling in his lifetime.

No one has led the development, creation, and management of more boutique hotels than Chip Conley, founder and former CEO of Joie de Vivre (JDV). At age 26, Chip’s mission was to “create joy” by building a company that USA Today called “the most delightfully schizophrenic collection of hotels in America.” During his nearly 24 years as CEO, JDV grew to become the second largest boutique hotel company in America. (Chip is no longer an owner or leader of Joie de Vivre’s management business – now part of Commune Hotels – but remains a partner in several hotel properties.)

In 2013, he joined Airbnb as Head of Global Hospitality, where he’s sharing his proven methods with hosts in nearly 200 countries. And Chip launched the travel blog Fest300, which provides an in-depth look 300 of the world’s best festivals.

Chip shares his unique prescription for success in PEAK: How Great Companies Get Their Mojo from Maslow, based on noted psychologist Abraham Maslow’s iconic Hierarchy of Needs. The New York Times bestseller, Emotional Equations: Simple Truths for Creating Happiness + Success, is Chip’s latest book where he takes us from emotional intelligence to emotional fluency – placing meaning at the top of the balance sheet. His previous books include The Rebel Rules: Daring to be Yourself in Business, and Marketing That Matters: 10 Practices to Profit Your Business and Change the World. Chip presents his theories on transformation and meaning – in business and life – to audiences around the world and he’s been a featured speaker at TED.

Honored with the 2012 Pioneer Award – hospitality’s highest accolade – The San Francisco Business Times named Chip the “Most Innovative CEO” – and JDV the “2nd Best Place to Work in the entire Bay Area.” Chip received his BA and MBA from Stanford University and holds an Honorary Doctorate in Psychology from Saybrook University, where he is the 2012/2013 Scholar-Practitioner in residence. He served on the Glide Memorial Board for nearly a decade and is now on the Boards of the Burning Man Project, the Esalen Institute, and Youth Speaks.

Chip currently lives in San Francisco.

Maura McCarthy

Maura McCarthy is a Co-founder of Blu Homes, Inc. and serves as its Vice President of Market Development. She has several years experience as a Venture Capital Investor at Ironwood Equity, including experience as an Investor in the prefab homes industry. Ms. McCarthy is a Member of the U.S. Green Building Council and the Renewable Energy Business Network. Ms. McCarthy holds a B.A. from Georgetown University in 2001.

Blu Homes is the leading provider of premium prefab homes in California. Built in half the time of conventional custom homes, Blu homes feature soaring ceilings, walls of glass ‘letting the outdoors in’, luxury quality finishes, and integrated high performance technologies for convenient and comfortable living. Blu’s proprietary information technology enables customers to create their unique home design online in 3-D, and receive a clear, full project price. Skilled craftsmanship and unique steel-reinforced building technology allow Blu to build beautiful, open-plan designs, ship them efficiently and complete them quickly for a simple one-stop process for its customers. Built in its 250,000-square-foot state-of-the-art manufacturing facility in Northern California, Blu’s inspired and nationally recognized products can be found from New York to the Colorado Mountains and the Pacific Coast.

Steve Case

As Chairman and CEO of Revolution LLC, a Washington, D.C.- based investment firm he co-founded in 2005, Steve
partners with visionary entrepreneurs to build significant ‘built to last’ businesses. Revolution invests in and actively helps
build companies leveraging technology to disrupt existing markets. This includes both early and mid-stage growth
companies through both the Revolution Growth fund, created in 2011, and the Revolution Ventures fund, launched in
2013. Revolution has backed more than 30 companies, including: sweetgreen, Zipcar, Revolution Foods, LivingSocial,
Bigcommerce and Optoro.

Steve’s entrepreneurial career began in 1985 when he co-founded America Online (AOL). Under Steve’s leadership, AOL
became the world’s largest and most valuable Internet company, driving the worldwide adoption of a medium that has
transformed business and society. AOL was the first Internet company to go public and the best performing stock of the
1990s, delivering a 11,616% return to shareholders. At its peak, nearly half of Internet users in the United States used
AOL. In 2000, Steve negotiated the largest merger in business history, bringing together AOL and Time Warner in a
transaction that gave AOL shareholders a majority stake in the combined company. To facilitate the merger, Steve
agreed to step down as CEO when the merger closed.

Steve’s passion for helping entrepreneurs remains his driving force. He was the founding chair of the Startup America
Partnership — an effort launched at the White House to accelerate high-growth entrepreneurship throughout the nation.
Steve also was the founding co-chair of the National Advisory Council on Innovation & Entrepreneurship, and a member of
President Obama’s Council on Jobs and Competitiveness, where he chaired the subcommittee on entrepreneurship. In
2014, Steve was named a Presidential Ambassador for Global Entrepreneurship.

Steve has been a leading voice in shaping government policy on issues related to entrepreneurship, working across the
aisle to advance public policies that expand access to capital and talent. He was instrumental in passing the JOBS
(Jumpstart Our Business Startups) Act, and is active in advocating on behalf of immigration reform. In April, 2016, Steve
released his #1 best-selling business book, The Third Wave, in which Case explains the ways newly emerging technology
companies will have to rethink their relationships with customers, with competitors, and with governments; and offers
advice for how entrepreneurs can make winning business decisions and strategies—and how all of us can make sense of
this changing digital age.

Steve is also Chairman of the Case Foundation, which he established with his wife Jean in 1997. Together the Cases
have invested in hundreds of organizations, initiatives and partnerships with a focus on leveraging the Internet and
entrepreneurial approaches to strengthen the social sector. In 2010, Steve and Jean joined The Giving Pledge and
publicly reaffirmed their commitment to give away the majority of their wealth to philanthropic causes.